Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Plates vii
4. Contributors xi
5. Acknowledgments xiii
6. Introduction 1
7. 1 The Legacy of Classical Antiquity in Byzantium and the West 15
8. 2 Plants and Planets: Linking the Vegetable with the Celestial in Late Medieval Texts 29
9. 3 Plants in the Early Medieval Cosmos: Herbs, Divine Potency, and the Scala natura 47
10. 4 A Cook’s Therapeutic Use of Garden Herbs 60
11. 5 The Jujube Tree in the Eastern Mediterranean: A Case Study in the Methodology of Textual Archeobotany 72
12. 6 Gardens on Vellum: Plants and Herbs in Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts 101
13. 7 The Sources for Plant Names in Anglo-Saxon England and the Laud Herbal Glossary 128
14. 8 Anglo-Saxon Ethnobotany: Women’s Reproductive Medicine in Leechbook III 145
15. 9 Herbs and the Medieval Surgeon 162
16. 10 Rosemary: Not Just for Remembrance 180
17. 11 Utility and Aesthetics in the Gardens of al-Andalus: Species with Multiple Uses 205
18. 12 Hortus Redivivus: The Medieval Garden Recreated 228
19. Index of Manuscripts 243
20. General Index 247